» Site Navigation | | » Recent Threads | | looove 04-16-2024 01:18 PM 04-16-2024 01:18 PM 0 Replies, 1,956 Views | | | | | 11-08-2014, 10:34 PM | #1 | Member Join Date: Nov 2014 Location: rockford il Posts: 75 | Custom suspension Working on designing a custom suspension for my 95 sport ti. Has anyone done something similar? I'm doing a double wishbone style suspension. Designs coming soon | | | 11-16-2014, 02:50 AM | #2 | Senior Member Join Date: Dec 2011 Location: SoCal Posts: 702 | Not too sure what other people have done, but be sure to update and show us what your working on! In general the .org is kind of a slow forum but even if people do not necessarily respond you will get people looking at the posts. __________________ ***328ti Build thread. *** Even more important: SUPPORT 318ti.org! CLICK THE LINK ABOVE! Hosting a forum like this is not free. 318ti.org is one of the best BMW forums on the web because it is member supported, not vendor supported. The cost to become a Supporter is a nominal $10.00... A YEAR! DO IT! NOW! | | | 11-16-2014, 03:48 AM | #3 | Member Join Date: Nov 2014 Location: rockford il Posts: 75 | Haven't done to much besides designing yet. But its coming along. I do more custom audio then car with. | | | 11-22-2014, 02:27 AM | #4 | Member Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: Utah Posts: 62 | Sometime down the road I intend to do either a dual A-Arm or a multi-link rear setup. Struts up front can work really well when properly setup and there are lots of parts available for the E36 to correct the OEM geometry for a much lower car. Probably the easiest (and best) way to do it would be to pick up the suspension out of a donor car that has the entire suspension mounted on a subframe and then simply build a new subframe that used the donor car geometry but managed to fit it on the 318ti. Suspension geometry design is VERY complex, starting with a donor car that handles well (using front struts preferably) and has aftermarket support would probably put you miles ahead on a setup that works well without multiple revisions. | | | 11-22-2014, 04:09 AM | #5 | Member Join Date: Nov 2014 Location: rockford il Posts: 75 | I already have a track proven design ive built before, i just wanted to see what others may have done, i have a custom double wishbone design i made | | | 11-22-2014, 10:23 PM | #6 | Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Portland Or Posts: 2,666 | So google around about the E30 M3 Super touring cars. Same suspension as ours and for about 3 years NOTHING came close. Sometimes they know what they are doing.. the upside is the E30 style suspension on the TI has some fairly generic mounting locations so a rear rube assembly to hold whatever experimental thing you want to do is fairly easy. __________________ Dave - PDX 1995 318ti - Active Black and Tan. 2005 330xi - Mtech 1 - 6spd - Orient Blue/Black | | | 11-22-2014, 11:22 PM | #7 | Member Join Date: Nov 2014 Location: rockford il Posts: 75 | The type os suspension I am going to use if very similar to what an F1 has. But i took the basis of what they have and adapted it to drift. To me its perfect, | | | 11-24-2014, 06:56 PM | #8 | Member Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: Utah Posts: 62 | When you say similar to F1, I'm curious what you mean. I assume you just mean dual A-arms because there is nothing ideal at all about F1 suspension on something that resembles a road car? Anyway, sounds like a great project. Like I said, I’d love to do the same. Pdxmotorhead, keep in mind that the competition at that time was also mostly using semi-trailing arm suspension as well. E30 guys are so hung up on what BMW did 20 years ago that they fail to see the progression made since then. Yes, it can work alright, but it’s so heavily compromised that they aren’t even in the same league as a properly setup dual A-Arm car | | | | Currently Active Users Viewing This Thread: 1 (0 members and 1 guests) | | Posting Rules | You may not post new threads You may not post replies You may not post attachments You may not edit your posts HTML code is Off | | | |
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